First unit is installed at Plant McDonough, near Atlanta; other units are added at the North Highlands and Bankhead dams.

A U.S. Department of Commerce study reports that the southern region leads the country in more than 75 percent of all economic indices; over the past 10 years, 1,555 new industries, creating 124,000 new jobs, have located in Southern's service territory.

Southern Company officers and Atlanta-based employees of the service company move to Lenox Towers, across the street from Lenox Mall, one of the nation's largest and first all-electric shopping malls.

Southern's quarterly dividend increases to 42.5 cents.

Bouldin becomes the 1963-1964 chairman of EEI.

Edwin I. Hatch is elected president of Georgia Power; McDonough continues as chairman and CEO.

J. D. Lewis joins the board as an outside director.

The first Clean Air Act focuses on research, creation of state control agencies, and interstate pollution issues; specific pollution-control policies will be enacted seven years later.